Lost- is the payoff worth it? ** No Spoilers **

If you are going to be comfortable with the cycles of flash forwards, flash backs and "flash sideways" that are to come, then yes.

We prepared ourselves for Lynchian strange and convoluted turns well ahead of time and did not experience the shock and confusion of folks who watched it air in real time. In that way, I think bingers have a big advantage (as they do for groundbreaking shows like Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5 - both threaded shows well ahead of their time that are better binged than aired in the old model, again, IMHO).

In the end, Lost is meant to be experienced more than understood. Hope this helps.

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Lost- is the payoff worth it? ** No Spoilers **
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Midway thru season 1… there’s like 100 episodes….

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Are you enjoying it? If so, keep watching. Not sure what kind of answer you are looking for


If you are half way through season 1 and you are not enjoying the hell out of it, you should probably watch something else.



There are numerous people on this board and everywhere that states that LOST is the best series of all time


So you may need to just open up your own mind




But yes. Its worth it for me

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Is it worth it?

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Undoubtedly yes. Maybe more so than any other show I've ever seen. Some people may nitpick and gripe about irrelevant tiny bullshite that doesn't really matter but overall you WILL become invested in the characters to a degree likely not seen with any other show. So in that regard yes it is totally worth the ride.

This reminds me that I need to finish Dark... only problem is I think I would need to start back from the beginning because of all of the characters.

I wouldn't say Lost is a waste of time. I know some people were disappointed with how it ended, but it was still pretty good all the way through... we're not talking about GoT level bad ending here.

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Midway thru season 1… there’s like 100 episodes….

Is it worth it?

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The show slows down going into S3 because there were no real thoughts about an ending. This gave that season a feeling of shite being thrown against the walls just to create questions without ever providing answers and audiences were starting to get tired of that.

Around the mid-point of S3 the showrunners decided on an ending and that the series would finish up at the end of S6. Starting with S4, the writing was focused on that ending and you could tell in the writing as you start get more answers than questions.

The ending is such that most people either loved or hated it with in between those extremes (at least initially).

If you're enjoying it thus far, stick with it and make your mind up at the end.

Once you're done with that, as another poster said: watch Dark (if you haven't already).

The ending? No, not at all.

But if you're enjoying it, you might as well keep watching a show you enjoy. It's a quality show. But by no means is the "payoff" worth it.

Absolutely.

To me at least

I loved the ending and that it didn’t try to be more.

I binged the entire series last year for the first time and didn't think it was worth it.

A lot of the love the show gets is nostalgia from people who experienced something different and unique 20 years ago with a new type of show and where they had to wait a week for each new episode so they would join internet groups (also somewhat of a novelty) discussing theories and clues about what was going on.

People will say, "It's about the ride, not the destination". My counter is we now live in an era where there are much better roller coasters to ride and we now know the destination matters just as much as the ride.

No, actually it does matter, since I’m
The one asking.